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Pulling Beards and Flicking Faces…

by MyBaconPress

“That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.” The last known words of Renee Good, to the ICEhole who shot and killed her.

“Fuckin’ bitch!” First words of shooter Jonathan Ross after killing Renee Good.

In an effort to support their fraudulent coverup of a story, lying Team Evil has released more video of the incident involving the killer Jonathan Ross. They’re trying to prove she was an out of control nutball intent on hurting the officers. Dog Killer Kristi Noem called Good a “domestic terrorist,” fercrissakes. With her smiling face and her, “I’m not mad at you,” it’s a little hard to take that seriously.

Each angle I’ve seen – three now, two from bystanders, one from the killer – shows that the car and the ICEhole DID come into contact with each other. MAGA is sure that’s all the proof they need. But a very solid case can be made that the ICEhole put himself in front of her car. That’s a known no-no for cops.

She was trying to avoid him – and he could so easily have simply stepped to one side. It remains true. She wasn’t TRYING to hit him, he didn’t need to shoot her. Hell, they already had her license plate. It would have been a simple enough matter to follow up later, if needs be – oh, AND IF they had the authority to do so. Instead, Ross panicked.

Team Evil really wants, maybe needs, to justify this killing. So they piled on with their stories. Why, I don’t know. MAGA already believes (they have no choice). “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” – George Orwell, 1984. Rational people all know what we saw. So, just for added flavor, Team Evil is trying to justify the killer’s overreaction by pointing out that he was dragged by a car several months ago and ended up getting thirty-three stitches.

I’ve seen that video, too. The dude was breaking the glass and reaching into the car. That is, an unsecured car with the motor still running. The driver took off and Ross couldn’t manage to pull his arm out. That’s poor police work. His arm shouldn’t have been in there. Killer Ross is an ICE agent, not a cop. Still, the driver is charged and will face trial. Meanwhile, Ross is back on the street, apparently with PTSD, and Team Evil is using that incident to justify this incident. It’s no wonder he’s a little “sensitive,” they suggest.

What I hear is that they put an agent with PTSD back on the street and he killed a civilian, an American, a mother. Not a terrorist. Not even a protestor. A mother. He over-reacted and panicked, possibly as a result of his PTSD. So don’t try him for first degree murder. Lesser charges are fine, but charge the guy.

I would love that. Minnesota should arrest Jonathan Ross and charge him with homicide. It would be awesome pushback against the abuses and over-reach of ICE and the regime. Donny couldn’t pardon him for state charges. I think it might help to diffuse people’s anger, too.

We all know, the intent of all of this insanity is to provoke a response. Donny needs an excuse to escalate and this outrageous, unconstitutional behavior is supposed to bring it about sooner or later. All they need is one person – one – to respond in kind. It’s an untenable situation. People are angry and getting angrier. Sooner or later, someone WILL respond and then…what?

There’s one more aspect of this Team Evil isn’t even addressing. There’s going to be much back and forth on who did what and what was appropriate and even, maybe, “deserved.” The incident, itself, will be polluted with bullshit until it’s hard to determine details. But one thing that can NOT be denied? Those ICEholes denied Renee Good medical aid.

Some of the video that has emerged shows a person trying to render medical aid in the moments immediately after Ross shot Good for no reason. The ICEholes refused to let the person. The person clearly tells them, “I’m a doctor!” The ICEhole clearly replies, “I don’t care.” That, alone, should be legally actionable. Even when the ambulance showed up, ICE wouldn’t let the ambulance into the area. The EMT’s had to carry their equipment and get to Good on foot, wasting even more valuable time. That wasn’t an oversight, either.

“The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.” – John Lennon.

If Minnesota arrested Ross, the people would be pleased. Some of that anger would dissipate. Yes, it would escalate the situation, but in a different way than the regime wants. #ArrestJonathanRoss…

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It’s one of the most stupefying things about MAGA. They’re all running around these days insisting there’s no such thing as international law. I’m sure there’s no connection, but it seems to have started right around the time their Precious violated international law by kidnapping Maduro. They all KNOW there IS such a thing as international law. The Geneva Conventions are only one example of the various treaties and agreements that constitute international law. Still, this is the preferred MAGA position, these days, and they’re going to stick to it and insist upon it – until they need international law.

You see, no one has explained the other shoe to them. It goes like this: If the Felon’s actions in Venezuela are okay because there’s no such thing as international law, then there’s nothing stopping a different nation – maybe one that doesn’t like us, hell, maybe one of our allies – from sending in their Delta Force to eliminate a foreign head of state THEY consider unstable and problematic.

I presume MAGA will take the position that they wouldn’t dare considering how bad to the bone we are. But they might dare and, according to MAGA, that wouldn’t be a legal problem in any way, right? There are, after all, no international laws, right? It’s immediately apparent, it’s a stupid position that leads to an obvious conclusion.

Fortunately, MAGA can just switch back on a moment’s notice. It’s the main advantage to a complete lack of principles. They can ignore every word they ever uttered when they pretended international law was just a dream, and now insist international law is the most important law. You know, should they need to. Zero principles. Mind-boggling…

Who’s Paying For All Of This?

by MyBaconPress

Honestly, put yourself in their position. The oil companies, I mean. Don’t consider this question from the position of a MAGA, who only sees 47 as beautiful and perfect. Consider the question from the point of view of a corporate boardroom – a boardroom that controls billions of dollars. Donny says the US is going to “run” Venezuela. The question you’re going to ask is, how? Like he has “run” the US? When one is not blinded by MAGA, one easily sees what a mess everything is.

Now Donny’s telling them, “Go into Venezuela and spend billions of dollars rehabilitating their oil industry while we (Team Evil) provide all of that beautiful stability and long-term structure corporations love so much.” If I was the CEO of one of those companies, my answer would be something like, “Yes, sir, we’re on our way. We sure are in a hurry. Thanks, pal.” Then? I think I would sit on my hands and wait and watch.

Despite their claims, I suspect they want the oil. Just having access to it fattens their bottom lines. But the only thing anybody can say, for sure, about Venezuela is that it’s now a country that has been destabilized. Nobody can predict the future there. Investing billions into an unstable, possibly unreliable economy isn’t the kind of thing these companies usually do…

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Okay, quick question: now that we know all of this agitating has been about seizing Venezuela’s oil industry, what does that mean for all of those small boats blown up and the people murdered in the name of stopping Fentanyl?

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To me, it looked like the Minneapolis driver was waving traffic around her at the start of the video. That seems relevant. I don’t know why she was stopped sideways in the street, but it seems like the move of someone turning around. It looked (and sounded) like she was waving conflicting traffic around her, both for their convenience and so she could more safely complete her turn-around.

Then ICEholes rolled up and sprang into ICEhole action. They approached the vehicle, yelling and shouting. They attempted to access the vehicle. No warrant, no probable cause. When they attempted to open the door, the driver backed up. Then she put her vehicle in drive, turned the wheel to the right (that’s important, too) and hit the gas.

There was an ICEhole standing kind of in front of her. (He was a little off to the side.) That will be the fact Team Evil will hang it’s hat on. To me, it looked like she was steering past the ICEhole but for a moment, as a matter of physics, the car was pointed directly at the guy. That was his moment to “get even” with all of those bullies. He pointed his weapon and fired. He shot a woman in the head. She’s dead.

People are going to see this the way they want to, and I’m a people. I can’t say what she was thinking, but, to me, it didn’t LOOK like she was driving AT him. If I was on his jury, I would vote to convict…

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Well, that didn’t take long. It never does, really. MAGA has been against nation-building, regime change, “forever” wars since Iraq and Afghanistan. Especially so long as they thought those wars were started by Democrats, even though they were actually started by Bush 43. They’ve been loud about it. 47 ran on his record of “peace,” and they lapped it up.

Now that Donny has started a nation-building, regime change, “forever” war, MAGA is all in. It took them a few days. MAGA media had to put the “Ain’t he great?” B-roll on a loop for a few days, but the conditioning seems complete now, and MAGA is all in on this nation-building, regime change, “forever” war. It easy for MAGA media to manipulate the MAGA mind. The MAGA mind lacks principles, so it’s easy for them to shift from one position to it’s exact opposite in a matter of a couple of days…

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Now that son-of-a-bitch is cutting off funding for needy families – but only in so-called “blue states.” He claims fraud and cuts people off “until this can be straightened out.” Remember, his stories don’t have to be true. They’re intended for video loops in MAGA media to fool the rank and file. Really, he’s just attacking blue states. Oh, AND all of the red people living in those blue states. That is a problem with our pretended ‘red state, blue state’ dynamic. There’s red in blue and there’s blue in red. You can’t hurt JUST blue by attacking so-called “blue” states.

He doesn’t really care, of course. It’s for show. It’s an excuse to claw back American taxpayer money from the American people and put that American taxpayer money into his own pocket instead. Mostly, he has targeted children in this attack. That is, the money he’s slashing is for programs that help needy children.

Attacking children isn’t new to Donny so I presume this is easy. This IS, after all, the guy who set up and then stole from a children’s cancer charity, after all. He’s also the guy who allegedly raped and trafficked children for sexual purposes. He also violated underage teenagers by leering at them while they changed during beauty pageants. No, attacking children doesn’t seem to be out of bounds for him at all.

I don’t have to work at all to make a list of things he has done TO the American people. I can’t think of one single thing he has done FOR the American people…

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I think the vast majority of people won’t take direct action against Donny because we’re far too civilized. We’re still counting on “elections” in a corrupt society with a rising dictator. We keep hoping some help will come from some place – just swoop in and save the day – but, so far, nothing. Meanwhile, we keep hoping for him to just go away – but nobody will do anything to help him ‘just go away,’ you know?

Now, though, I think Donny may have upped the ante a bit in a rather dangerous game. He used drugs as his excuse to invade Venezuela. Now he’s blathering about drugs in other countries, too. The thing is? There really ARE drug cartels in Central and South America. They really ARE billion dollar operations. And, by definition, they play outside the rules the rest of us follow instinctively.

As a law-abiding, civilized citizen, I won’t raise a hand against Donny – even as he attacks my life on a daily basis. But the drug cartels? Give them a reason. They very well might…

STILL On The 2020 Election? Okay…

by MyBaconPress

The level of obsession 47 shows with things past, things that can not be changed because they’re done and did is WAY beyond normal concern. OCD, maybe? I’ve heard (and seen) how Alzheimer’s can cause obsessive focus on things. The Drumpfster seems to be displaying that when it comes to the election of 2020 – and his reaction to it.

We’ve heard a LOT about January 6th. Honest people saw and reported an insurrection, fueled by The Felon. MAGA called it a ‘Day of Love.’ It was violent. People died. Things were damaged. MAGA demanded that we ignore all the violence and focus only on the empty corridors where the violence wasn’t occurring. Whatever the story, the main point held by Team Evil was that it was a spontaneous event Donny had no control over or connection to.

But, uh-oh. It turns out, Team Evil paid the expenses of huge swaths of the criminals and miscreants who attacked the Capitol on J6. Now, MAGA will deny that fact, claiming that there is no document with a line-item that reads, “Bring in violent protestors to kill cops.” Well, duh. Even MAGA isn’t dumb enough to write it out like that.

What Team Evil did was fund organizations who then funded efforts to get people to the rally. They even set up a bus program to transport people. See? Politicians ARE bussing people to preferred locations. It’s just that it’s the Republicans bussing violent criminals to the Capitol building so they can attack – just like Donny asked them to. A bunch of the money was funneled through Turning Point USA, by the way. That’s Charlie Kirk’s group, now helmed by Erika Kirk.

That is to say, Turning Point was instrumental in the J6 insurrection. Maybe that’s why Charlie had to go. He knew too much…

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He spends his days tilting at windmills. Now all you have to do is decide if I’m talking about Don Quixote or Donny the Dotard…

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“Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power.”

“Our investigation also developed powerful evidence that showed that President Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January of 2021, storing them at his social club, including in a ballroom and a bathroom. He then repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents.”

“January 6th was an attack on the structure of our democracy in which over 140 heroic law enforcement officers were assaulted. Over 160 individuals later pled guilty to assaulting police that day. Exploiting that violence, President Trump and his associates tried to call Members of Congress in furtherance of their criminal scheme, urging them to further delay certification of the 2020 election. I did not choose those Members, President Trump did.”

“Pres. Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy. These crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol, part of this case, does not happen without him.”

Excerpts of Jack Smith’s testimony to Congress…

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Ah, crap. The world really is turning upside down. It’s weird agreeing with Marjorie Taylor Greene but she’s been saying truthful things recently, and I agree with truthful things. So? Suddenly, MTG and I agree about some things. I’ll get used to it. Besides, I WANT to create space for recovered MAGA to come home to.

But now it’s happening with Lauren Boebert, too. She says Donny vetoed a water project in her district in retaliation for her support of releasing the Trump/Epstein Files. I suspect an added irritant for the Dotard is that Colorado won’t let a Felon Donny likes out of prison, the way HE lets Felons he likes out of prison. Either way, now I find myself agreeing with Lauren Boebert, fercrissakes!

In a statement to a local news outlet, she said, “Nothing says ‘America First’ like denying clean drinking water to 50,000 people in Southeast Colorado many of whom enthusiastically voted for him all three elections … But hey, if this administration wants to make its legacy blocking projects that deliver water to rural Americans; that’s on them.”

I’m terrible at predictions but here’s one anyway: this veto of a unanimously passed, bipartisan bill, will be the first scale to fall from Boebert’s eyes. I suspect the truth is about to set her free. Stay tuned…

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Has no one in MAGA really ever stopped to consider the mountain of information they’re asked to simply write off as fake news or a Democrat hoax on a daily basis? Have they never heard the adage, ‘Where there’s smoke, there’s fire?’ Even after things he had declared hoaxes or fake news get exposed as truths and factual news, MAGA still simply dismisses “less-than” information about Donny as some kind of conspiracy.

Is it really possible that all of these revelations, exposures, and reveals on his behavior and performance could be hoaxes or fake news? Here, let me help. No. The answer is no. Donny IS the criminal the civilized world says he is. He is not the “hero” MAGA thinks he is. MTG knows now. Boebert is learning, right now. MAGA will catch up, given enough time…

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Well, he’s done it again. He keeps suggesting that every president should take a cognitive exam because “our great country cannot be run by “STUPID” or incompetent people.” That’s why he’s bragging that he keeps taking the things. He actually and honestly thinks those tests prove he’s smart. The thing is, because most people realize that cognitive exams are not intelligence tests, he’s sort of proving the exact opposite.

In a recent ramble, he wrote, “I ACED (Meaning, was correct on 100% of the questions asked!), for the third straight time, my Cognitive Examination, something which no other President, or previous Vice President, was willing to take.” What he means, of course, is that no other President or previous Vice President was ever asked to take a cognitive exam – though I imagine Ronald Reagan took one or two.

His own team knows he’s losing his mind. At least they’re working to prop him up…

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Donny’s big plan to lower drug prices? Oh, he asked the drug companies to lower their prices. In his pea brain, that, along with his stripping away of health insurance from millions of Americans, should solve the health care crisis in the US, right? Well, he DID ask – and they answered. It turns out, drug companies are raising prices on hundreds of medications. Not to put too fine of a point on this, that’s the exact opposite of what Donny asked.

Why, it’s almost as if the drug companies consider him a useless, feckless, irrelevant, obnoxious, useless (did I say useless already?), stupid, moronic, greedy, sinful, self-serving, self-important blowhard of a failed, useless (I did say useless already, right?) complete waste, pedophile, piece-of-crap of a human being.

Oh, I guess I DO have something in common with drug companies, after all…

What’s Important and What’s Not…

by MyBaconPress

You’ve got to hand it to MAGA media, they’re very good. Fast, you know? Pretty much as quickly as Donny’s bombs fell on Venezuela, cons had been conditioned to answer the question, “How happy are Venezuelans that Maduro is gone?” A lot of them, apparently. Not all of them, I’ve noticed, but a lot of them. No one is interested in defending Maduro. But that’s the wrong question, isn’t it?

Look, if some foreign, sovereign nation decided to swoop into Mar-a-Lardo and bundle up our national nightmare for an unplanned visit to the Hague to stand trial, the vast majority of this nation – hell, the vast majority of the world – would fall out partying and celebrating. Not everyone, of course, but the vast majority of us. Would that make it okay? See, the question conservatives should be asking is, “What right does the United States have to invade a foreign, sovereign nation without provocation?” THAT, is the right question. Oh, and just for the record? None. The proper answer is none.

Oh, I know. It’s easy enough to blow off that question, “What if some foreign, sovereign nation decided to swoop into Mar-a-Lardo and bundle up our national nightmare for an unplanned visit to the Hague to stand trial?” We’re the biggest, meanest country on the block and you know no one could pull that off, so it’s easy to be smug. But that, too, is sidestepping the proper question, which is, ‘What right?’

Donny has no legal authority to take the action he took. He just did it. This is just a sidebar, but many are pointing out that the US is asserting that the US can enforce laws against Presidents of foreign nations, but simultaneously asserting that the US can NOT enforce laws against the US President. That’s just some pretty convoluted thinking, right there. But I digress.

In one action, he has instigated an illegal regime-change, nation-building, forever war – AND set the rest of the world on edge, wondering where his delusions might strike next – and MAGA seems to be all in. That part, I have to admit, blows my mind. 47 ran on “no wars.” MAGA used to throw the “no wars” thing in people’s faces – even as the US was still fighting in Afghanistan. No wars, no wars, no wars. Yeah, yeah.

Now he’s going to sacrifice American soldiers and American taxpayer money so he can illegally steal another country’s natural resources. In retrospect, he DID tell the oil companies that if they gave him lots and lots of money, they could dictate his actions vis-à-vis our government and their corporations. Apparently, they chose “Venezuela” and another oil war was on.

“No, it’s not a war,” many MAGA are saying, “it’s more of a… police action.” Oh, really? Were those police officers that invaded Venezuela? Or were they United States military troops? Wait, haven’t we heard that one before? Oh, yeah, over the war cowardly Cadet Bone Spurs worked so hard to avoid. Vietnam was ‘just a police action,’ too. 58,000 American soldiers lost their lives and countless more were injured and damaged – and that’s only our side.

All of that death and destruction over a “police action.” And now, Donny says he’s going to stay in Venezuela. He’s going to install his preferred government because when has THAT ever gone wrong? Then he’s going to “run” Venezuela – into the ground, if his past is any indicator. He actually said, “We can’t take a chance that someone else takes over Venezuela who doesn’t have the interests of Venezuelans in mind.”

What, like him? He went in to steal their natural resources and funnel the money – ALL of the money – to himself and his rich friends. How well do you suppose that’s going to serve Venezuelans? We really ARE living in the Upside Down…

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I put these two bits together because they reflect my day. The first, an issue of great weight and importance. The second, a low-level time-suck intended to bring pleasure through entertainment. I woke up to the news that 47 had bombed a foreign, sovereign nation. It cast a pall over my day. So I looked forward to a little entertainment in the evening – and got yet another bomb.

But there’s an obvious, huge difference between, “People died” and “My preferred team did not prevail in their sporting competition.” The juxtaposition was jarring. If it seems jarring here, too, well, that was my day…

So, yeah, they looked good – but that was just the uniform. Other than that, it was pretty ugly. Someone should have called the Forty-Niners and told them they had a real football game to play. Clearly, nobody did. The Niners apparently thought it was a scrimmage and didn’t show up. The Seahawks did, though. Kyle Shanahan got all stubborn again. The Seahawks are the very best at shutting down the run. So, Kyle kept trying to force the run. Oh, BOY did that not work. But Kyle kept trying.

I know, McCaffrey only carried the ball eight times, how stubborn is that? Well, considering the Niners only had the ball, like 15 times, that’s pretty stubborn. Yeah, okay, hyperbole alert, but not by much. The Niners only had 9 first downs in the whole game. How many carries is one going to get when one’s whole game is three-and-outs? McCaffrey could NOT move the ball on the ground. The recommended reaction is to throw quick, short passes until the defense softens up a little. Kyle didn’t do that or, at least, he couldn’t make it work.

When there was a hat-tip to the reality that the Niners weren’t going to run on Seattle, Kyle tried to pass from formations with the QB under center. The problem was, Seattle could blast right through our offensive line like it wasn’t even there. So after Purdy took the snap and dropped back, he kept finding Seattle players in the backfield with him. I think Purdy should have taken more snaps from the Pistol or the Shotgun to give him an extra beat. Kyle wasn’t taking my calls, though.

Okay, the truth is, the Niners should have been out of contention somewhere around Week 4 or Week 5. The team has had so many injuries, especially on Defense, it’s a bit of a wonder they were even able to field a team, let alone be playing for first place in the NFC. It WAS a terrible game and a sad portent of what the Niners playoff experience is going to be like this season – but it was an amazing season from a team that shouldn’t have been where they are (were)…

Holy Gods, What Now?!?

by MyBaconPress

But… but… he won the FIFA Peace Prize. How could he do this? I wake up each day, hoping for the same headline but, so far, it’s always something else. Usually, it’s just the normal, Team Evil insanity. I often write parts of these posts ahead of time, as they unfold. I check the news before posting, just in case I get my wish for that desired headline. You know the one, “Trump Dead At 79.” As I’ve mentioned, so far, he has disappointed me on that each and every day. Still, hope springs eternal. Sometimes, there’s something that forces me to re-write. Today was one such. I got up, got my coffee, opened the paper and…

Holy crap, that dumbass has attacked Venezuela and taken President Maduro and his wife into custody! Pam Bondi has promised Maduro and his wife “will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.” Just for the record, that’s pretty much a clean sweep of promises made, promises NOT kept. He hasn’t lowered prices. He hasn’t provided better health care. He hasn’t fixed the economy. He didn’t “drain the swamp.” He IS the swamp. And now, he hasn’t even kept his promise not to get the US into unnecessary wars.

Put it down as yet another international war crime. Venezuela was/is no threat to the US. Venezuela has taken no military action against the US. There have been no formal declarations of war from either side. But the US military swooped into Venezuela, kidnapped Venezuela’s President, brought him back to the US under cover of darkness, and now intends to put him on trial.

It’s a violation of pretty much every international agreement ever put together. It’s going to take years just to figure out which international courts get jurisdiction first. Team Evil is counting on the adage that might makes right. Still, they’re wrong. They’re setting the stage for their own version of the Nuremberg Trials. I suggest they be called ‘The Caracas Trials’ in this case.

Reports say the US attacked both civilian and military targets. That’s Trump, murdering civilians in an attempt to sate his own demons. The UK was quick to step up and disavow any knowledge or participation in the crime. Putin called his puppet, too. Russia is demanding “immediate” clarification about the circumstances of the capture of Maduro. Much of Venezuela’s oil goes to China. Well, it did. I’m guessing the Chinese are going to be interested in the theft of Venezuelan oil, too. In fact, every country that has taken a position on Donny’s misadventure in Venezuela as of this writing has condemned the action.

The plan (threat) is to put Maduro and his wife on trial – ostensibly for selling drugs in the United States. Who believes that? Donny pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, who was convicted of conspiring to distribute over 400 tons of cocaine into the United States during his time in office. How strongly could Donny be opposed to someone selling drugs in the US if he’s pardoning them after trying to sell 400 tons of cocaine?

The oil makes a lot more sense. The effing oil wars just never end, do they? Even after we’re able to shuffle off the yoke of addiction to oil, the oil wars continue. We don’t even need the crap. The LAST time Republicans and the oil corporations wanted to steal a bunch of oil, the US was treated to the fiction that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq. He didn’t. The US knew he didn’t. International weapons inspectors swore up one side and down the other, he didn’t. Even US weapons inspectors said he didn’t have any.

The US attacked anyway. How many people died? How many were maimed for life? But the US marines are the US marines. It literally took us days to get to Baghdad and when we did, we found Saddam and ripped his head off. “THAT,” we warned, “will teach everybody NOT to try to sell their oil in any currency other than dollars.” Then we pretended some rusted old weapons buried in the desert qualified as “WMDs.” Then, since were there anyway, well, we took thousands and thousands of barrels of oil – gratis.

Apparently, Venezuela didn’t get the “only dollars” memo and has been selling oil in other currencies. Some of that was to get around sanctions. Some of it, I presume, is about trying to break the US stranglehold on oil sales. But Donny has already said the US will be “very strongly involved in Venezuela’s oil industry.” Keywords? VENEZUELA’S oil industry. This is street-level thuggery on an international scale.

Stay tuned. This has just started. I think Donny, as a result of his delusions and in concert with his desire to blot out the Trump/Epstein Files, has painted himself into quite the corner. The entire international community has condemned this illegal action. Donny is so stupid, he thinks attacking Venezuela will keep people from paying attention to the Trump/Epstein Files and/or the Jack Smith testimony in which Smith swore to Congress he had everything he needed to put Donny in jail.

But the Drumpfster’s international war crime didn’t even stop me from mentioning the Trump/Epstein Files or the Jack Smith testimony in the first reports of the criminal action. Reasonably intelligent people are capable of holding more than one thought at a time. Long term, I think all he has accomplished is to create yet another avenue of indictment just as soon as the world gets the chance. I hope the world gets the chance soon.

Dear world,
Donny has set the tone. Donny has dictated the way it should be done. You have a problem with a rogue world leader, disrupting and destabilizing everything? Sneak in at night at whisk his ass away for trial in your country. It’s okay. We won’t even say anything. Hell, we’ll pretend we don’t even know the guy and we never knew the guy. Just, someone, please, haul this boy away.

No such luck. Donny is a problem of the United States and it’s going to have to be the United States that solves that problem. But we had better hurry. Now that his insanity is splaying worldwide, the rest of the planet may not wait for us to get around to it…

2026… Threat or Promise?

by MyBaconPress

Well, about the best we can claim is that we survived ’25. Most of us, anyway. That was a hell of a ride. A nightmare, to be sure. If you’re like me, you spent much of last year walking around in a kind of shock at what has happened in the US. Donny reclassified cannabis from a Schedule I drug, which it never was, to a Schedule III drug. Other than that, everything he has done has been harmful and intended to inflict damage.

He has stopped paying America’s normal bills – he just cut off child care funding – but has still managed to “spend” (steal) more money than any other administration in history. So, in eleven short months he has destroyed the US, crashed the economy, turned us into a world-wide laughing stock, stolen everything that isn’t nailed down – and a few things that are. The nation is wreckage. So instead, we turn to our personal lives.

People are losing jobs. Prices are high and going up. Millions lose health coverage – today – not because they don’t want it. They simply can’t afford it. Are you better off than you were under Biden? Hell, no, you’re not. Looking at our personal lives just puts in mind that we’re worse off, there, too. FAR worse off. But this is supposed to be a Happy New Year message!

It’s a tough message to deliver because I don’t think 2026 will be any happier than 2025 was. In fact, I expect worse. There are some possible bright sides. Our national embarrassment is in terrible shape. He might die at any moment. Short of that, this clown-show continues. Life will get easier and easier for the billionaires and harder and harder for everyone else.

No, wait, I almost forgot. The mid-terms are in November. If the left can take back Congress, or any part of it, we can stop him in his tracks. I have noticed that, these days, when there’s an election, it’s been an almost perfect clean sweep by Democrats. I think Republicans, by and large, are sitting out elections, intentionally handing control back to Dems. It’s not that they want the Dems, but they can’t take much more of Donny, either.

So there’s that. There IS possibility. There is hope. 2026 could be the year we turn things around. 2026 could be the year we get rid of this Cockwomble, once and for all. (A Cockwomble is a spectacularly stupid person.) In that spirit, I wish you a very… Hopeful New Year. So let’s get going…

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Man, this rift between Donny and Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to be complete. She says she was naive to believe in him. (She was.) He says she’s a traitor. (She’s just being honest now.) It’s been a back and forth that she traces to the Trump/Epstein files. She believed he would release them. She believed in him and felt like there was no reason not to release them. But then, he didn’t. He wouldn’t. He simply refused.

Finally, the House forced him to release the documents through a discharge petition signed by 218 members, one of whom was MTG. The White House ran a full court press on MTG and other GOP women who had signed the petition. Marjorie is now out telling everyone that when they pressed her, Donny shouted at her that his friends would be hurt. That’s something of an admission, isn’t it?

He KNOWS he has friends who would be hurt if the Trump/Epstein Files are released? How many known pedos does he call friend? Do you know how many friends I have that I know for a fact are pedophiles? None. Not one. Do you know who knowingly hangs around pedophiles? Other pedophiles. Have you ever heard of NAMBLA? It’s the ‘North American Man Boy Love Association.’ Pedophiles hanging with pedophiles. But Donny is yelling at MTG that his friends would be hurt by releasing the files. Pedophiles hang with pedophiles.

I think MTG honestly believed Donny’s name wasn’t in the files. She really didn’t understand his reticence to release them. When he was finally forced to release the files, the world was treated to black page after black page, releasing the paper, but not any real information. Fortunately, the black pages were redacted badly and clever sleuths figured out how to remove the redactions where we’ve discovered Donny’s name has been redacted countless times to protect him. Not his rich friends, him.

For the record, this, I think, is how people will recover from MAGA. It was often a single issue that drew normal people into the MAGA-sphere. After they were drawn in, they learned to accept and excuse one outrage after another, slowly chipping away at their own morality. A single issue can also be the catalyst to breaking the bonds of MAGA like it did with MTG.

Once she realized that he wasn’t releasing the Trump/Epstein Files because he was likely in them and protecting himself, the scales fell from her eyes and she sees him more clearly than she ever did before. Once the illusion of the greatness of the Precious is penetrated, the failure that is Donny becomes more and more clear. Be patient with your MAGA. It will work the same for them, too.

Conservative icon Bill Kristol is openly questioning Team Evil, as well. He wrote, “At first I just thought, what clowns. But after a moment’s thought I am more incredulous and suspicious. A million documents? When they’ve been on high alert for months? And DOJ and FBI do have filing systems. (That’s why they’re the Epstein FILES.) Something’s rotten in DOJ.”

Kristol has also now repeated some information those of us outside the MAGA media bubble have had for a long, long time. “In a court memo filed on July 8, 2019, two days after his arrest, DOJ outlined some of the evidence they had seized. This included stacks of compact disks labeled “Young [Name] + [Name].” In short, Epstein kept a carefully curated library of videos.”

One could simply make a list of the names on those discs. Leave out the ‘Young [Name]’ part and present the people of interest in the ‘[Name]’ part. Those are the men in whom we’re interested in the first place. I don’t care about who flew on the plane or when. I care about who raped whom. Give us those names, and, yes, even if they’re Democrats…

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In LA, they saw more rain on Christmas Day than they’ve seen in years. Meanwhile, on the same Christmas Day, it was a balmy 68 degrees Fahrenheit – in Iceland.

I’m sure glad I have Donny and other MAGA mouthpieces to tell me climate change is a hoax because, at this point, I have concerns…

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As you know, Felon 47 recently tried to add his name – illegally, I might add – to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He DID slap the letters on the wall. This was an illegal homage to his own insatiable ego that no decent person wants to see. So, of course MAGA is all in. The Kennedy family objected to the change and pointed out that it’s illegal. Only Congress can change the name of a national memorial and Congress doesn’t do anything these days. They certainly have not done that.

So, MAGA being MAGA, they started protesting people declaring the name change illegal, specifically, the Kennedy family because, of course they did. If a person can take a wrong position on a subject, any subject, MAGA will be there, passionately, gloriously, and publicly wrong and wrong-headed.

Then, the Kennedy family suffered yet another tragedy, JFK’s granddaughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, died of acute myeloid leukemia, aged 35 years. The Drumpfster is mad at the Kennedy family for not letting him associate his failed, gross, Jabba the Hutt self with one of the best Presidents in American history. So he did what he does. He attacked.

Now, in fairness to His Blobster, he apparently didn’t actually write anything himself. Instead, he spent an evening re-posting tweets and memes from other people who were mocking the Kennedys for not wanting Donny’s dark, evil, and horrifying name associated with JFK’s name. The family is mourning a tragic loss and Donny mocks and teases them. That’s one classy guy, isn’t it? Dear MAGA, remember this because what goes around, comes around.

I wake up every day hoping for the headline, ‘Trump dead at 79.’ Every day. The first thing every day? He keeps disappointing me on that – then he goes and does even more disappointing stuff. I understand he’s an abomination of a human being. I’m not sure why I ever expect any level of decency from that guy. My bad, I guess. He has never shown even a spark of human goodness and I remember Maya Angelou: when someone shows you who they are, believe them…

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According to Frank Luntz, the Federal workforce is nine percent smaller now than at the beginning of 2025. Meanwhile, Federal spending is up six percent over the same period.

Donny’s not spending one dime more than he absolutely has to on America or the American people. So, where the hell is all of that money going? Asking for a friend…

A Promise, Re-promised…

by MyBaconPress

Zelenskyy must be feeling pretty good. Safe and secure, you know? Word is, Donny promised Zelenskyy strong, 15-year security guarantees. Oh, good. I wonder if those “guarantees” are any more solid than the original US promise of security guarantees to Ukraine for surrendering the nuclear arsenal they ended up with after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In 1994, the US, the UK, and Russia signed an agreement with Ukraine called the Budapest Memorandum. It promised respect for Ukraine’s borders, no economic or military threat against Ukraine, except in self-defense, and that the US and UK would support Ukraine in case of invasion.

When Putin first invaded, the US, kind of begrudgingly, offered weapons. Some weapons, of limited capability. The US held Ukraine to a “limited war.” I define “limited war” as a war the “limited” side gets to lose. Biden finally figured out that his strategy was poor and changed, but it was very late in the game and Ukraine had worse to face: Donny the Dumbass.

Donny started off as a Russian asset, reporting to Putin. By definition, 47 has little to no choice but to try and deliver Ukraine to Russia on Putin’s orders. Donny also started off as a self-serving grifter who doesn’t – can’t – do anything for anybody – ever – unless he gets a taste of the profits. A large taste. So Donny reneged on the deal. Now Ukraine has to renegotiate.

Maybe 47 will keep his word, maybe he won’t. As nearly as I can tell, he rarely keeps his word, so I wouldn’t bet on it. More likely, Donny will take the vig he demands from Ukraine for “security guarantees,” then turn his back on Ukraine anyway. I mean, come on, name a person or group Donny has NOT betrayed. The very best you can do is name someone Donny hasn’t betrayed yet.

Hey, is NOW a good time to remember that this is a war The Felon promised to end in one day? He said it would be easy. He was counting on his close, personal relationship with Putin. Then Putin told Trump to pound sand. Now? Nothing but excuses. People can defend him all they want but I’m sticking with the idea that if he didn’t have a plan in place, he shouldn’t have made the promises – and he REALLY should honor the agreement the US already promised…

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Here’s a paragraph from an article from ‘Military.com:’ “Historically speaking, battleships have been obsolete since at least 1921, when a simple bombing demonstration off Virginia’s coast proved the large warships are vulnerable to air attack. That vulnerability has been validated repeatedly through World War II and ever since as aircraft, submarines and cruise missiles systematically demonstrated that bigger and more expensive warships are easier to sink. They are simply not worth the costs and risks involved in building, maintaining and using in active combat.”

Hmm, battleships are outdated technology that cost WAY too much to build and maintain with WAY to little return on investment? That sounds like the dumbest choice a person could make as far as upgrading one’s navy. So, obviously, Donny has announce a new battleship. You’ll never guess the designation. It’s a ‘Trump-class battleship.” If I was going to bet today, I’d bet the thing sinks the minute it hits the water.

Cadet Bonespurs claimed the new battleships will be “the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built.” Of course he did. Naturally, none of that is true. American battleships of WWII were larger and the Japanese Yamato was the largest battleship ever built. By now, Donny, of all people, should know: you can tell someone yours is the biggest, but eventually, they’re going to see it and they’ll discover the truth. There’s a reason he demands non-disclosure agreements…

Army Brigadier General Billy Mitchell tried to warn the Navy battleships were vulnerable to air attack as far back as WWI. The Navy didn’t want to hear it. Mitchell proved it by sinking a captured German warship with air-dropped bombs. The Navy didn’t want to hear it. In 1924, Mitchell famously predicted that the Japanese would launch carrier-based attacks on Pearl Harbor using aerial torpedoes against anchored and vulnerable battleships. 1924.

The Navy still didn’t want to hear it. In 1925, the Army court-martialed Mitchell for accusing military leaders of “almost treasonable administration” after they refused to heed his warnings. In 1941, Japan did exactly what Mitchell had predicted. To this day, you can still visit the USS Arizona, laying at the bottom of the bay after having been bombed by airplanes and sunk exactly as Mitchell had warned.

So, of course Donny wants to build new battleships. It’s outdated technology, easily defeated by air power. It costs huge amounts of money to build and maintain, a massive waste in view of how easily defeated they are by air power. Super expensive, nearly useless, yesterday’s technology? That’s right in the center of Donny’s bailiwick: useless, expensive, and wasteful…

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It would have been easier on the Niners had the Carolina Panthers beaten the Seattle Seahawks. But, they didn’t. The Seahawks won. The Niners had to beat the Chicago Bears to stay in the race for first place overall. The Bears are a VERY good team. The Niners have some issues this season. Nonetheless, the Niners managed the victory. It was a very good, back and forth game. At the end, it felt like the game could go either way right up until the gun sounded and the game went one way: to the Niners.

They’re playing for first place overall and that comes with a first round Bye, a chance to rest players. It can be quite the advantage. I understand why they’re putting so much into it. But it looks like they’re leaving it all out on the field, now, in these regular season games. I’m becoming concerned that what it will take to land the First Seed will cost them too much heading into the playoffs.

Then again, I’ve been underestimating this team all season long. Players keep getting injured and each injury brings a feeling of, “Well, that’s it!” So far, though, that hasn’t been it. They just keep plugging along and winning games. Next week, the Niners host those self-same Seahawks in Santa Clara. It’s yet another must-win for the Niners.

If they DO win, they earn the number one seed. They get to skip the first round and rest. THEN, for as long as they can remain in the playoffs, ALL of their games would be in Levi Stadium – up to and including the Stupor Bowl, should they get that far. That would be fun and good for the team, not having to travel at all throughout the playoffs.

If the Niners lose to the Seahawks, they’re still in the playoffs. They just get a lower seed and they WILL have to travel. Oh, AND they’ll have to play in every round and they lose their chance to rest players. I really hope the Niners win. It should be a great game. Hey, what can I say? Escapism is more important, these days, than it used to be…

The Never-Ending Reveal…

by MyBaconPress

A MILLION more files? Good Lord, when the FBI – the old one, the one that did the job – got going, they didn’t mess around, eh? Team Evil has just announced the “discovery” of over a million new Trump/Epstein files from the Southern District of New York (SDNY).
“Wait, the Trump/Epstein files?”
“Yeah, the dude likes to slap his disgusting name on everything and he insists his name come first. I just beat him to the punch on this one. I think time will show how correct that is, too.”
Apparently, it’s going to take them a few more weeks to dig through them and redact Donny’s name from the possibly thousands and thousands of times mentioned. (Possible hyperbole alert, there. Possible.)

Donny said he had never been on Epstein’s plane. Well, that was just a lie and now the world has the documents to prove it. Word is, Donny traveled on Epstein’s plane to an island neighboring Epstein’s island, too. Do you believe Donny got so close to Epstein’s island for some reason that did not include going to the island? Wanna buy a bridge?

The (in)Justice Department is pretending to work feverishly to get all the Trump/Epstein files out in a timely fashion and for all the world to see, so long as it takes as long as possible to process them and the world doesn’t see anything. Meanwhile, Donny seems to be feeling the pressure when it comes to these files. Nothing he has tried has worked. He can’t deflect from his involvement. Every time he tries, some new tidbit comes out that supports his participation.

Hell, from my point of view, revelations keep making things worse for him. I’ve already moved from 47 as participant to 47 as purveyor because of the information being uncovered – and that’s while the DOJ is doing it’s ridiculously incompetent best to protect him…

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Before we get too far from these Trump/Epstein files, did you see what Donny wrote on Christmas? His Christmas wish to the world? Sometimes, Donny gives up the game when he doesn’t mean to. He wrote: “Merry Christmas to all (that part’s nice), including the many Sleazebags (Oh, oh, here we go.) who loved Jeffrey Epstein (like DJT), gave him bundles of money (DJT), went to his Island (DJT), attended his parties (DJT), and thought he was the greatest guy on earth (DJT), only to ‘drop him like a dog’ when things got too HOT, falsely claimed they had nothing to do with him (DJT), didn’t know him (DJT), said he was a disgusting person (DJT), and then blame, of course, President Donald J. Trump (sic), who was actually the only one who did drop Epstein, and long before it became fashionable to do so.”

That’s a long paragraph because that’s what rambling looks like. If you ask me, it was awfully helpful of him to lay out so many details of the relationship…

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Donny The Dotard has faced numerous scandals since descending that escalator on that dark day in 2015. For reasons that defy all attempts and reasonable explanation, he has managed to lie his way out of the vast majority of them. But these days, there are two that seem to have stuck: The Trump/Epstein Files and the economy.

Most of his other scandals have been less in-your-face. He can lie about boats in the Caribbean, for example, because MAGA isn’t in the Caribbean. But MAGA IS in grocery stores and it doesn’t matter how many times he says prices are down when their wallets are so much lighter at the checkout stand.

MAGA media has worked as hard as they could to protect Donny from the reality of the Trump/Epstein files, too, but the more information that leaks out – and it’s legion, at this point – the harder it is to pretend the Trump/Epstein bromance was in any way innocent.

Donny seems to be feeling the weight of not one, but two millstones around his neck. It’s possible he can still survive the Trump/Epstein Files and the economy – the devil takes care of his own, after all – but if a third crisis rears it’s ugly head, and it sticks, I suspect Donny will be sunk, once and for all. C’mon third crisis…

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There’s this woman, Tina Peters. MAGA, to no one’s surprise. She really, really wanted Donny to win the 2020 election. So, with all of the integrity of a standard MAGA, she cheated. She was found guilty in a Colorado court of allowing a man to misuse a security card to access to the Mesa County election system and for being deceptive about that person’s identity. In truth, it was a team of people and they were so confident in what they were doing, they even ordered lunch in.

It turns out they worked with Mike Lindell, the failed pillow guy who just can’t conceive that Donny might have lost, despite easily having been the worst President in history until this current clown. Lindell has been shouting into the wind about having evidence the election was rigged, but has yet to show even a single legitimate document supporting his claims. Lindell is lying. Peters lied, too.

Peters ended up being convicted on three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, one count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty, and failing to comply with the secretary of state. She was sentenced to nine years in prison.

Our moronic misleader doesn’t understand why she should be in prison just for helping him cheat in the election. He thinks she should be free to cheat again. So, he wrote her a pardon. It was performative. He thought it might pressure state officials to release her from their state prison on all of those state charges. His big problem? “State.” It turns out, he has no pardon authority over state crimes and Colorado helpfully reminded him of the fact – then refused to release Peters.

Then Colorado had some wild fires. As it happens, the fires occurred in a district represented by a Republican. Donny denied requests for assistance anyway. He’s now tying emergency aid to Colorado’s willingness to free felons from prison? Well, at least that’s the speculation. They haven’t said so specifically. In fact, they promised their decision was policy, not politics, which, coming from Team Evil, practically guarantees the decision was politics, not policy. Or that the policy IS politics. Take your pick.

These are MAGA voters he’s leaving twisting in the wind. I approve. They get to see what they voted for. They get to feel what they voted for. Maybe, just maybe, they’ll start to realize that they can stay conservative without supporting a politician that won’t support them. He has already moved soy farmers from productive, self-sustaining workers to welfare recipients. Now he’s doing the same to MAGA in Colorado. I’m watching to see how much abuse MAGA will absorb, but then, I’m often startled by how much abuse some people will take…

Needed: Three Ghosts…

by MyBaconPress

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas. I certainly did. You may have noticed, I took the day off. (You may not have noticed, as well.) I didn’t get what I want. He’s still infesting the White House. Other than that, though, it was a pretty good day…

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It’s one thing, I imagine, for Donny to run around messing with average Americans. Generally speaking, we don’t have the ability to defend ourselves and Donny loves to pick on people who can’t defend themselves. But what happens when the demons he wrestles start causing him to pick on people who DO have the ability to defend themselves? That is, people with money.

Well, I think we’re all about to find out. He’s SUCH a deranged dumbass, he got angry at Scotland for putting up a few windmills in the sea that can be seen from one hole of one of his golf courses. He fought them at the time. He lost. He ALWAYS loses fair fights. That’s why he cheats so much. From there, the anger festered and grew. Now the guy has decided that climate change is a hoax and he has it in for any and all forms of renewables. Bring on the horrible fossil fuels we no longer need and should be moving away from.

In keeping with his backward, deranged “thinking,” he attacked five wind farms being built offshore along the east coast. Two are in New York, one is in Massachusetts, one spans Rhode Island and Connecticut, and one is in Virginia. Collectively, the projects cost $25 billion dollars. They provide power for 2.5 million homes. These five projects represent only a tiny fraction of all wind farms, but also represent 100% of off-shore projects being built today.

He tried one of his stupid Executive Orders but a judge struck it down. While all of THAT legal wrangling was taking place, according to the corporations developing the project, they lost somewhere between $15 million and $50 million dollars every week. You know what corporations love? Losing money – especially when it’s for no good reason and only to placate a moron.

So, on Monday, Dec 22, the Interior Department announced they were suspending the leases for the wind farms. Why? Get this: national security concerns! As always, the exact opposite of reality. The administration pretends the blade movement, combined with the towers’ reflective nature, can create radar interference, making it more difficult to identify legitimate targets. No word on why he dropped the bird slaughter and confused whales line. No, now it’s national security. True national security would be breaking our national dependence on oil, but one can’t explain reality to crazy people.

So, no, it’s not a matter of national security. What it is is, a multi-billion dollar project being undertaken by corporations large enough and wealthy enough to build a multi-billion dollar project. It’s possible – likely, even – that Felon 47 is simply angling for a payday. No one gets to do anything unless he gets his beak a little wet, you know? But I suspect deranged neuroses.

I say again, it’s one thing to attack defenseless people. This is an attack on the very wealthy people he usually tries to take such care of. They have resources. In order to protect their investment, they’ll have little choice but to use some of those resources to try to overcome the deranged delusions of a powerful but tiny, tiny little man…

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Jim Beam, yes, the whiskey company, is suspending operations at it’s flagship distillery in Kentucky for a year. Apparently, there’s a whiskey oversupply. Some of that, for sure, is down to this recent trend in which people are drinking less alcohol. Much of that, for sure, is down to Donny’s tariffs. Canada got angry at the dotard over his stupid and unnecessary tariffs and pulled all American whiskey from their shelves.

Think of the Jim Beam distillery as a canary in a coal mine. I presume it’s not a large operation, employing thousands. Still, it employs plenty of people who now have to find other work. It’s just a single example of how he’s wiping away people’s jobs with his feckless mismanagement. But it’s only one example. This kind of damage is happening from sea to shining sea as he primps and prances over his new ballroom and works, tirelessly, to slap his name anywhere and everywhere it doesn’t belong…

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Hey, I hear the GDP is up! Can you believe that? I mean, DO you believe that? It’s okay. Some people never learn. Really, haven’t you noticed how 47 reacts to bad news? He fires the person who reported the bad news, promising to fire the next person if they report bad news, too. Haven’t you noticed how he inflates and exaggerates numbers? If he really brought down prescription prices 800%, 900%, in some case 1,500%, drug manufacturers would be paying US to take their drugs.

No, Donny lies about performance. He just does. If you want to go ahead and invest YOUR money based on nothing but government reports, you have at it. It’s your money and you’re free to burn it however you like. But it only leaves me wondering just how bad the actual GDP numbers must be for Team Evil to be making up these glowing replacements…

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I wrote at the outset that I hope you had a nice Christmas and I meant it. I genuinely hope you did. At least one person seems to have been a bit lonely over Christmas, our inglorious misleader, Donny the Doofus. He spent Christmas rage-tweeting. Apparently, he posted over 200 long and rambling, furious rants. It made him seem lonely, but in his case, I could be wrong. He seems to love raging at his demons so maybe he was having a wonderful Christmas, tossing childish abuse at all of his perceived enemies, like any 8-year-old might.

He declared himself awesome (I mean, obs). He posted hate-filled screeds against anybody he perceives may have tried to hurt him. He declared himself awesome again. He pretended his Epstein problem is a Democrat hoax AND pretended he wants all the files released to embarrass the Democrats. (No word on why the Democrats would perpetuate a hoax intended to smear themselves.) He pretended he has solved all of our problems – he hasn’t – and declared himself awesome one more time.

He attacked Obama, who was, likely, spending Christmas with loved ones. Donny doesn’t know what “loved ones” means. He attacked Biden because he always attacks Biden. It’s the worst case of BBS (Blame Biden Syndrome) I’ve ever seen. He attacked a re-run of Stephen Colbert’s show, fercrissakes. Spewing anger, spewing hatred, spewing vitriol, spewing conspiracy theories, spewing and spewing and spewing. Bah! Humbug!

I’ll tell you this: I’ve never, ever known anybody who better needed to be visited by three ghosts…

Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey…

by MyBaconPress

This is an ‘All Jeffrey, all the time’ post. Things are moving pretty quickly now that the Epstein Files are coming out. Team Evil is desperately trying to look like they’re cooperating with the law while working overtime to NOT cooperate with the law. “Here’s the file, but you can’t read it.” The cat and mouse game has inspired some thoughts and a caution on my part. Remember, this is just an overview. There’s a LOT going on right now…

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It’s the typical standard from Team Clownishly Evil. Unless and until they fix it, some clever person out there discovered that if one copies the all-black pages and pastes them into another text reader, the text that had been redacted is no longer redacted and now reads clearly. Apparently, it doesn’t work on all of the pages but I’ll bet there’s an army of people right now downloading file after file to read the contents.

The down side is that uncovering the text uncovers the names of victims, too, but at this point, many of the victims are already known. The obvious up side is that everyone gets to see what those files say AND what, exactly, the government is redacting. People investigating the issue have already discovered redactions that seem to have been done just to add some black to the page.

Also, in their search function, they blocked the ability to find “Trump,” but not the ability to find “Trump .” See the space after? So far, people have discovered well over 600 references to Trump. He’s all over those files. The incompetence of Team Evil is one of humanity’s greatest allies…

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I advise caution. Do you remember Dan Rather? He was a reporter with CBS back when CBS was an honest and honorable news outlet. That is, before Bari Weiss. He had gotten hold of a story about at-the-time President Bush 43. George, it seems, avoided service in Vietnam by signing up for a National Guard “Champagne Unit.” It was a typical dodge of rich kids back in the day.

But then, 43 couldn’t even be bothered to go to the weekend obligations. Apparently, he never reported for duty. That was the story. There was much back and forth on the subject until, miraculously, a letter appeared that supported the story perfectly. Too perfectly, as it happens.

When asked about it, the secretary said she did type such a letter for her commander. The letter in question summed up the details of 43’s “service” nicely, she said, but that particular letter wasn’t the letter she had typed. The letter was a fake, a plant. Dan Rather, a seasoned newsman, had fallen for it and reported it as authentic.

Not only did it end Rather’s tenure as a newsreader on CBS, it ended the debate. Even though the secretary had said the information in the letter reflected the letter she had typed, meaning it was accurate, because it wasn’t the actual letter, the entire issue went away.

The reason I mention that is this: it is not beyond the realm of comprehension that Team Evil might plant fake stories into the Epstein files. The idea would be to get people going on this or that fake thing then prove it’s fake, trying to undermine the entire issue. Based on their redacting skills, it might not take long to identify fake entries but I recommend moving slowly on “discoveries.” This team of morons is likely to try anything. Fortunately for us, they’re morons…

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I’m going to presume that Team Evil didn’t expect this particular response from Bill Clinton. I think they thought they could just release a bunch of pictures of Bill around Jeffrey and everything would come up roses for Donny. Maybe everyone would forget that Donny’s name has been redacted throughout. Maybe we’d all forget that it was DONNY who was Jeffrey’s best friend for so, so long. Maybe, the left would fear that Bill was going to be caught up in the whole mess and back down on the Epstein things to protect him.

That last part was never going to work. I’ve spoken to many people on the left. All of them say, if Bill is in there, let him suffer the consequences. The left just wants these perverted, insecure men to pay a price for their crimes. We’re not even looking at political parties in the scheme. Decent people consider party affiliation irrelevant.

Still, whatever it was Team Evil expected, they do not seem to have expected Bill to challenge them to bring it all out, every page, every photo. “Let’s stop with the innuendo,” Bill challenged, “Show us the whole thing, unredacted (except to protect the victims). Put it ALL out there, Donny. All of it. Let’s see who’s implicated.” You gotta love Bill’s brass…